West Side Story

Who says? Who knows?

If there is a director with a kinetic style who could bring back this musical, it is Steven Spielberg, but sitting through two hours and a half of this tepid update, I wished they’d just made a version with the music and the original choreography by Jerome Robbins and without the book. Radical, I know, but the score by Leonard Bernstein, the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and the choreography by Jerome Robbins are a…